Finding patron's previous card number?
When we issue a replacement card the patron gets a new library card number. Sometimes we realize a day or two later that we have to merge their old and new card numbers in Overdrive, the e-book system. Does anyone know if there is way to retrieve a patron's previous card number? Thanks! Elisa Chandler Manager of Technical and Virtual Services The Blue Mountains Public Library Leonard E. Shore Memorial Library echandler@thebluemountains.ca<mailto:ebarker@thebluemountains.ca> Ph. 519-599-3681 Fax 519-599-7951 www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca<http://www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca/> ________________________________ This e-mail is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain legally privileged and confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized use, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, or are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, and permanently delete the original message. Please be aware that Internet communications are subject to the risk of data corruption and other transmission errors. By submitting your or another individual's personal information to the Town of The Blue Mountains you agree, and confirm your authority from such other individual, to our collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Elisa, Are the old cardnumbers on an account that you're deleting, or are they simply changed on the borrower's current account? If they are on a deleted account, you should be able to run a report on the deletedborrowers table. If they're on the current account, there's not much you can do. --Barton On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Elisa Chandler < echandler@thebluemountains.ca> wrote:
When we issue a replacement card the patron gets a new library card number. Sometimes we realize a day or two later that we have to merge their old and new card numbers in Overdrive, the e-book system. Does anyone know if there is way to retrieve a patron's previous card number?
Thanks!
Elisa Chandler Manager of Technical and Virtual Services
The Blue Mountains Public Library Leonard E. Shore Memorial Library echandler@thebluemountains.ca<mailto:ebarker@thebluemountains.ca> Ph. 519-599-3681 Fax 519-599-7951 www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca<http://www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca/>
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When we issue a replacement card the patron gets a new library card number. Sometimes we realize a day or two later that we have to merge their old and new card numbers in Overdrive
There was a patch which would have allowed for tracking previous card numbers, but it was abandoned by the original developers. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3469 It's possible there is something there worth resurrecting. It's certainly a feature we could use, for much the same reason. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Another possibility would be improving MEMBER logging: Bug 15296 - MEMBER logging in action_logs does not give enough detail. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15296 That would allow you to see when any borrower information changed, including cardnumber. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
When we issue a replacement card the patron gets a new library card number. Sometimes we realize a day or two later that we have to merge their old and new card numbers in Overdrive
There was a patch which would have allowed for tracking previous card numbers, but it was abandoned by the original developers.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3469
It's possible there is something there worth resurrecting. It's certainly a feature we could use, for much the same reason.
-- Owen
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Agreed. I'd love better logging On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Barton Chittenden < barton@bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
Another possibility would be improving MEMBER logging:
Bug 15296 - MEMBER logging in action_logs does not give enough detail. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15296
That would allow you to see when any borrower information changed, including cardnumber.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
When we issue a replacement card the patron gets a new library card number. Sometimes we realize a day or two later that we have to merge their old and new card numbers in Overdrive
There was a patch which would have allowed for tracking previous card numbers, but it was abandoned by the original developers.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3469
It's possible there is something there worth resurrecting. It's certainly a feature we could use, for much the same reason.
-- Owen
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